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COQUETTE-continued.

See how the world its veterans rewards!
A youth of frolics, an old age of cards;
Fair to no purpose, artful to no end;
Young without lovers, old without a friend;
A fop their passion, but their prize a sot;
Alive, ridiculous; and dead, forgot!

Pope, M. E. 2.

With every pleasing, every prudent part,
Say, "What can Chloe want?"-she wants a heart.
he speaks, behaves, and acts just as she ought;
But never, never reach'd one generous thought.

She

Ibid.

There affectation, with a sickly mien,
Shows in her cheek the roses of eighteen;
Practis'd to lisp, and hang the head aside;
Faints into airs, and languishes with pride;
On the rich quilt sinks with becoming woe,
Wrapt in a gown, for sickness, and for show. Pope, Ra. of L

Bright as the sun her eyes the gazers strike,
And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.

Pope, Ra. of L.

Nymph of the mincing mouth, and languid eye,

And lisping tongue so soft, and head awry,

And flutt'ring heart, of leaves of aspen made. Peter Pindar.

Now Laura moves along the joyous crowd,
Smiles in her eyes, and simpers in her lips;

To some she whispers, others speaks aloud;

To some she curtsies, and to some she dips. Byron, Beppo.

Would you teach her to love?

For a time seem to rove;

At first she may frown in a pet;
But leave her awhile,

She

shortly will smile,

And then you may win your coquette.
Such is your cold coquette, who can't say

"No,"

"Yes," and keeps you on and offing

And won't say
On a lee shore, till it

begins to blow;

wreck'd with

an inward scoffing:

This works a world of sentimental woe,

Byron.

And sends new Werters yearly to their coffin. Ib. D. J. 111. 63.

Still panting o'er a crowd to

reign,

breast,

To make ten frigid coxcombs vain,

Than one true manly lover blest.

Thomas Moore.

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COQUETTE-CORRUPTION.

COQUETTE-continued.

Can I again that look recall,

That once could make me die for thee P

No, no! the eye that beams on all,
Shall never more be priz'd by me.

She, who only finds her self-esteem
In others' admiration, begs an alms;
Depends on others for her daily food,
And is the very servant of her slaves.
CORRUPTION-see Bribes.

Thomas Moore,

Joanna Baillie.

Corruption is a tree, whose branches are
Of an unmeasurable length: they spread
Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence
Hath infected some stools of authority.

Beaumont and Fletcher, Honest Men's Fortune.

He who tempts, though in vain, at least asperses

The tempted with dishonour foul, suppos'd

Not incorruptible of faith, not proof

Against temptation.

The veriest hermit in the nation

Milton, P. L. ix. 296.

Pope.

May yield, God knows, to strong temptation.

Pope.

At length corruption, like a general flood,
So long by watchful ministers withstood,
Shall deluge all; and avarice creeping on,
Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.
Those, who would gain the votes of British tribes,
Must add to force of merit, force of bribes.
Here let those reign, whom pensions can incite,
To vote a patriot black, a courtier white,
Explain their country's dear-bought rights away,
And plead for pirates in the face of day. Dr. Johnson, London.

This mournful truth is every where confess'd,

Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd:

Churchill, Ros.

But here more slow, where all are slaves to gold,

Where looks are merchandise, and smiles are sold. Ib. London.

Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats,

And ask no questions but the price of votes.

Dr. Johnson, Vanity of Human Wishes.

Tis hence you lord it o'er your servile senates ;
How low the slaves will stoop to gorge their lusts,
When aptly baited: ev'n the tongues of patriots,
Those sons of clamour, oft relax the nerve

Within the warmth of favour. H. Brooke, Gustavus Vasa.

CORRUPTION-COUNSEL.

CORRUPTION-continued.

Thieves at home must hang; but he that puts

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Into his over-gorged and bloated purse
The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes. Cowper, Task, 1. 736.

Whoso seeks an audit here

Peter Pindar.

Propitious, pays his tribute, game or fishes,
Wild-fowl or venison, and his errand speeds. Cowper, T.17.609.
A close state-leech, who, sticking to the nation,
As adders deaf to honour's execration,
Sucks from its throat the blood by night, by day,
Nor till the state expires, will drop away.
'Tis pleasant purchasing our fellow creatures,
And all are to be sold, if you consider
Their passions, and are dextrous; some by features
Are bought up, others by a warlike leader;
Some by a place, as tend their years or natures;
The most by ready cash-but all have prices,
From. crowns to kicks, according to their vices. Byron, D.J.v.27.

And conscience, truth, and honesty are made
To rise and fall, like other wares of trade.

Thomas Moore.

When rogues like these, the patriot (sparrow) cries,

To honours and employments rise,
I court no favour, ask no place;

From such preferment is disgrace.

COTTAGE HOMES.

thousands

o'er the silvery

brooks,

And there, unenvied, rural dainties taste.
Beneath our humble cottage let us haste,
The cottage homes of England!
By on her plains,
And round the hamlet fanes;
Through glowing orchards
Each from its nook of leaves;
And fearless there the lowly sleep,
As birds beneath the eaves.

COTTLE.

forth they peep,

0 Amos Cottle! Phœbus! what a name!

Gay, pt. 2, Fab. 2.

Pope.

Mrs. Hemans.

Byron, Engl. Bards and Scotch Rev. 1. 399.

COUNSEL see Advice.

Which fall pinto mine

I pray thee, cease thy counsel,

As water in a sieve.

ears as profitless

Sh. M. Ado, v. 1.

You'll find it wholesome.

Bosom up my counsel,

Sh. Hen. VIII. 1. 1.

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COUNSEL-COUNTRY LIFE.

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COUNSEL-continued.

He cast

O'er erring deeds and thoughts a heav'nly hue

Of words, like sunbeams, dazzling as they pass'd. Byron, C.H.

COUNTENANCE-see Face.

A countenance more

Sh. Ham. 1. 2.

In sorrow than in anger.

COUNTRY-see Home.

A wilderness of sweets; for Nature here

Wanton'd as in her prime, and play'd at will
Her virgin fancies, pouring forth more sweet,
Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss. Milton, P. L. v. 294.

God made the country, and man made the town;
What wonder then, that health and virtue, gifts,
That can alone make sweet the bitter draught
That life holds out to all, should most abound,
And least be threatened in the fields and groves P

Cowper, Task, 1. 749.

Scenes must be beautiful which daily view'd

Please daily, and whose novelty survives

Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years. Cowper, Task, 1.177.

He who loves not his country can love nothing.

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Give me, indulgent gods! with mind serene,

Byron.

Dryden.

And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene,

No splendid poverty, no smiling care,

No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur there. Young, L. of F.

Nature I'll court in her sequester'd haunts,

By mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove, or cell;
Where the pois'd lark his evening ditty chants,

And health, and peace, and contemplation dwell.

Smollet, Ode to Independence.

How various his employments, whom the world

Calls idle, and who justly in return
Esteems that busy world an idler too!
Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen,

Delightful industry enjoyed at home,

And Nature in her cultivated trim,

Dressed to his taste, inviting him abroad. Cowper, T. III, 352.

COUNTRY LIFE-COURAGE.

COUNTRY LIFE-continued.

They love the country, and none else, who seek
For their own sake its silence and its shade;

Delights which who would leave, that has a heart

Susceptible of pity, or a mind

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Cultured and capable of sober thought? Cowper, Task, III. 320.

Your love in a

cottage is hungry,

Your vine is a nest for flies-
Your milkmaid shocks the graces,
And simplicity talks of pies!
You lie down to your shady slumber,
And wake with a bug in your ear;
And your damsel that walks in the morning
Is shod like a mountaineer.

COURAGE-see Activity, Daring, Fortitude, Valour.
Screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we'll not fail.

By how much unexpected, by so much
We must awake endeavour for defence;
For courage mounteth with occasion.

What man dare, I dare.

Willis.

Sh. Mach. 1. 7.

Sh. K. John, II. 1.

Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,
The arm'd Rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcanian tiger,
Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves
Shall never tremble.

You must not think,

Sh. Macb. 111. 4.

That we are made of stuff so flat and dull,
That we can let our beard be shook with danger,

And think it pastime.

Idare do all that may become a man:

Who dares do more is none.

I do know him valiant,

And, touch'd with choler, hot as gunpowder,

And quickly will return an injury.

It is held

That valour is the chiefest virtue, and
Most dignifies the haver: if it be,

Be singly counterpois'd.

world

He's suffer

Sh. Ham. IV. 7.

Sh. Macb. 1. 7.

Sh. Hen. V. IV. 7.

Sh. Coriol. 11. 2.

The truly valiant, that care wisely sud make his wrongs

His worst that man ar them like his raiment, carelessly;
And nesid prefer his injuries to his heart,

To bring it into danger.

Sh. Timon, III. 5.

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